INTERESTING FACTS

The exhibition contains over 200 original items, documents and photos from the Titanic deck, as well as postcards and letters to the family written by passengers or a daily newspaper kept up to the day of the disaster. In addition, you can see many replicas - accurately reconstructed cabins, the captain's bridge, the famous stairs to the ballroom. The real wall of the glacier from the generator is also waiting for visitors!

DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S THE MOST POPULAR ARTIFACT ON THE EXHIBITION?

It is a porcelain in which meals were served. It was possible to extract it in a virtually intact state, arranged like a domino. The cabinet, in which they sank, decomposed slowly, leaving them safely stacked in the sand next to each other. In these vessels, made of fireproof porcelain, the chefs prepared and served hot dishes..

HOW ENGINEERS DEFINED THE TITANIC?

In their opinion, the use of the latest technologies made it virtually unsinkable. The admiration of modern technology, solid performance and panache meant that the ship seemed immune to the dangers threatening him in open waters. Fate decided otherwise and the wreck of the Titanic is still resting on the bottom of the sea. At the exhibition you can see its reconstruction.

WHICH OF THE PASSENGER GROUPS WAS SAVED IN THE BIGGEST NUMBER?

They were women and first-class passengers. The strong social divisions present on the ship were revealed even at such a critical moment as the catastrophe. Despite the many heroic attitudes and priority given to women and children, the majority of those who survived were first-class survivors. Even the phenomenon of "Orphan Titanic" arose - it happened that someone at the last moment threw a child on the foundations of a lifeboat and survived as the only one from the whole family.

HOW MANY SHIPS FROM THE "TITANIC" FAMILY MANUFACTURED?

Three. The family includes Titanic, Olympica and Britannica. The name of the third liner was supposed to sound originally Gigantic, but it was changed after the sinking of the Titanic into a slightly less pretentious one. Of the three ships, only Olympic had a long career on the North Atlantic route. At intervals, it lasted from 1911 to 1934. Titanic sank after colliding with the iceberg during his virgin voyage, April 15, 1912. Britannic after being launched, he was confiscated and turned into a floating hospital. He sank during one of the early cruises (November 21, 1916), after entering the mine in the Aegean Sea.